Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

At least when Stefano left Nokia my twitter with Finnish Nokia employes exploded with people thanking him for the time he was in the company and that Nokia lost amazing engineer.
Don't know about others.


Somebody was already suggesting Vanjoki for the company. While he was threated like sh1t being the only member of the original Nokia dream team not getting CEO spot, this company needs non of the old Nokia execs.
Though he can happily invest to it, that who knows he might have already. Maybe OPK has dropped some coins as well.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

some inf. from google/linkedin

Dr. Antti Saarnio – Finland Investor / Financier
Mr. Jussi Hurmola – in past: Director of MeeGo Computers Releases and Integration at Nokia
Mr. Sami Pienimäki – working in product management/marketing, telephone communications
Mr. Stefano Mosconi – in past: MeeGo IT Manager at Nokia
Maemo IT Team Leader at Nokia
Infrastructure Engineer at Nokia
Mr. Marc Dillon – in past: MeeGo (was Maemo, OSSO) Principal Engineer, Configuration Management at Nokia
S40 CoreSW Integrator at Nokia
Symbian Build Manager / Team Leader at Nokia
Configuration Management Administrator at Nokia

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

I'm conservatively hopeful for these turn of events.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Until confirmed, I'd personally hold on banter as such because it'll create unrealistic hopes.

This is just the beginning of their public statements from a company that has been around since late last year building slowly it seems.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Nah, that was only scrapped just now, while these guys have been going for nearly a year. Besides, it's already been established that the project is Mer-based.

(this is all information posted right here on this thread btw, I mean speculating is one thing but at least make the effort to use the information readily available)

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Best wishes from my side but I don't have much hope of success. They will reach nowhere even after years.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

N900 would be my last Nokia Mobile phone.I am willing to jump ship on Jollamobile :D

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

If you read their tweets, I think it's fairly clear that Nokia is putting the moolah in here..

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Just give us a qwerty slider Jolla !

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

N900 and N9 enthusiasts Your freely to join here

http://www.facebook.com/groups/320329091389895/

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Here's to hoping for a real successor to the N900!

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Brazil has Apple, HP, Nokia, LG, Samsung, and (until recently) HTC factories, as far as I know.

So, if they want we could house their product facilities here.

I'm actually an Electronics Engineer (although never worked with anything close to smartphones), if I could help in any way, I would.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Good to see this. I hope they aren't the only company who picks up the standard after Nokia's implosion, since we probably need more than one to increase the odds of having a device like the N900 or N9 in my pocket.

Not on FB, but I will follow them on Twitter.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

do nokia come up with patent or copyright issues to halt jolla?
is nokia behind this company?

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7759VIZ3Wg
All I can say is this

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

I am going to hate them if it is not released in INDIA.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

And how much are you willing to pay for that?

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Just hopes to a new, fast and beautiful device like n9.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Hm, ok, but that again sounds like something for occasional one-liner use. I can't see myself using such a thing for working on a document, writing an email, or command line work.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Jolla is interesting. I hope that we will get at least a polished geek toy.

Maybe a "consumer friendly geek toy" (with things like good camera, offline navigation, working Exchange implementation but still open enough to be hacked and tinkered with) is too much to hope for.

It would be interesting to know how much existing infrastructure they are planning to use. I mean things like Apps for Meego for distributing the applications or even TMO for community engagement.

I hope something good comes out of this.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

it seems like they know what they want and how they want to do it. So the plan is there if they can deliver i will definitely buy their device

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

i'm sure they can deliver on the software seeing how the core team members from meego form their team. but hardware play is a totally different ball game. you need a lot of $$$ too.

if they don't make it with the hardware i at least hope they can release updated versions of meego for the n9 (or even n900)..

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

tbh i think it could to ported to N9 just like an Android was. But they do say they already have hardware partners and investors.

And if they will open a donation page i will be more than happy to donate

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

I expect things will be pretty tough for the Jolla guys particularly on the manufacturing side and getting a finished product to market, but I hope they have great success in giving us the N9 successor that Nokia should have been doing round about this time.

I wish them every success and will be closely following developments with great anticipation.

Good luck to all at Jolla ;)

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Good question. I'd say I'd pay up to 25% more for a device if they manufacture in a place with decent working conditions and let me know. So a €600-device from cheap china would turn into a €750-handset for me.

No idea at all if this could be enough, but I probably wouldn't want to invest more.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Could they get us Skype video chat?!?!?!

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

BTW, I'm feeling really good following this thread - makes a welcome change from all the cr@p that's been floating round TMO these past few weeks.

Happy days :)

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Talking about that, i just saw what foxconn does with their apple workers and it's just sick =[ no one should be treated like that!

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Don't even try to make it sound like it's any group of individuals. Nobody's fault but Nokia's.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

^ hmmm... I disagree Mr. Ramos.

But let's just be happy with what's happening (or may be happening) with developments in this thread ;)

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Probadly not if you dont want to pay microsoft... I dont expect skype et all. Atleast not preinstalled.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

i hope jolla can use swipe(swipe to return to homescreen), this gem is useless at nokia.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

This thing blows.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

please clarify

the comapny is called jolla
the operating system it developes is called jolla mobile?

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

disagree also, few whiners whine a lot. This is better than i imagined, but boy I'm glad of living in finnish society, since the talent didn't leak, which was in the news already when the layoffs started. It's at least some of the nokia i liked took a jolla and paddled with the burning platform with em :)

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

If they have hardware parteners why would they ask for donations? I\d buy their product if I could but I wouldn't donate with just the promise of a meego device.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Some random thoughts spring to my mind:

It would be funny if Jolla has business relationship with Nokia... if Nokia does, then why not just let Jolla use Harmattan??

If the device will be available this year, then my guess is the UI is on Qt 4.x.

The project sounds in some way like Maemo 5: more open, but less commercial apps (I assume this is a given for now). I truly hope the company is not only targeting geek audience, but doubt how they are going to market the device to more general public without major commercial services available. For N9, at least there are some commercial ones like Skype and Nokia Map available...

UI and hw adaption are significant work, but the company seems to know clearly what it needs to do to get products out. I feel they are at an advantage to move fast now, unlike working in Nokia the goal was a wildly floating one and then management needed to deal with political craps. But then, I won't believe until the product is available.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Jolla uses Mer. Mer is using Qt 5.

http://twitter.com/stskeeps/status/221695032309194752

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

What would be really interesting is if there is any relationship between the announcement and the news that Amazon is in the midst of developing a handset targeted at competing with iOS and Android.

If there was ever an opportunity for a MeeGo based OS to gain traction, it would be on the back of an existing "ecosystem" like Amazon's market....

Food for thought ;)

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
 

Well, you could buy an iPad mini just fine, then. It seems they are using their plant here in Brazil to produce the first batch, at least.

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And I look forward to the day Jolla Mobile gets bigger than Nokia and outright buys the remains of Elop's scorched earth tactics.